News Digest
KYRGYZ INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIAL LAMENTS GROWTH OF DRUG TRAFFICKING
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Maken Turdugulov, head of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry\'s investigations department, told journalists in Bishkek on 4 February that there has been enormous growth in the amount of drugs trafficked through Kyrgyzstan in the last five years. More than 3.5 tons of narcotics were seized by law enforcement agencies in 2003 -- a seven-fold increase over 1999.MEDIA CENTER ATTACKED IN SOUTH KYRGYZSTAN
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The internationally funded Osh Media Resource Center in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh was attacked by two unidentified masked men in the early morning hours of 4 February. After assaulting a security guard and making verbal threats against journalists, the attackers stole computers, disk drives and hard disks, a digital camera, and a multimedia projector, but failed to get into a secure room where the center\'s documentation is stored. Center Director Ernis Mamyrkanov told Interfax that the men were apparently looking for specific data.U.S. CALLS ON KAZAKHSTAN TO MEET ALL ITS OSCE COMMITMENTS
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Responding to the semi-annual report by Anton Rupnik, head of the OSCE Center in Almaty, Deputy Chief of the U.S. delegation to the OSCE Douglas Davidson said the United States approves of Kazakhstan\'s desire to serve as the OSCE\'s annual chairman in 2009, but the country must meet all its OSCE commitments.NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO UZBEKISTAN SAYS FUNDING WON\'T BE CUT
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John Robert Purnell, the new U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan, told a news conference on 2 February that despite U.Visit also
Staff Publications
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Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
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Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.